I never though Graduation would mean that much for me, since I always change from one school to another. I only thought that Graduation would be the day I was going to receive a certificate and go to another level of education. I never thought of my senior year as something special, nor a year things was going to change, I only knew that my senior year was going to be like any other school year, but with the only difference that next year I wasn't going to be in high school anymore. It was the way I thought before I came into Metropolitan Senior High or before I was that close to my graduating year. This was the first time, since I can remember, that I'm in the same school for three years in a row. I used to change of school every year, since my father always moves of country every year. So I just thought that my sophomore year was going to be the same. I didn't r

eally care much about the activities my friends were doing to collect enough money for our "Graduation", since I just though "what for, if I'm going to move next year?" But for some queer reason, I didn't move next year, not from a country anyhow. Actually, I did go to the States for three months and studied there, but I always came back. I felt a little bit out of place the first day I came back. Everything seemed so different, so changed, there were new students and new teachers; but at the same time, I felt like in home. It was an odd feeling, but it felt good too, for the first time in my life, I wasn't the new girl in school.

Then it was the last day of school, and a vacation was near. That day, I gave everybody a card, and some gifts. I hugged everybody, told some of my friends about my feelings, told them that I loved them, that they were great friends; all of this because I wasn't sure if I was going to come back. I went to Taiwan for vacations, and almost stayed there forever. The fear of not seeing my friends again, not having fun with them again; made me open my eyes, and realize, how important they were, how much I cared about them, and how much I desired to go back, be with them, enjoy their company, and most important of all, be together in this last year of high school, and have my Graduation with them. I did every possible thing to go back, I begged my parents, cried every time they mentioned Honduras or staying in Taiwan, told them how important was for me graduating with my friends here, telling them that I wasn't going to be happy living in Taiwan, that I was getting out of

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